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Koine Greek wordlink #125716

SR GNT Gal 1:10 ἀρέσκειν (areskein) ‘or I am seeking to people to_be bringing_pleasure if still to people’ Strongs=7000 Lemma=areskō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=58 AD Refers to Word #125554 Person=Paul

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ἀρέσκειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀρέσκειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be bringing_pleasure’.

Rom 15:1 ‘and not to ourselves to_be bringing_pleasure’ SR GNT Rom 15:1 word 14

OET-LV: 15 And ought we, the powerful, the weaknesses of _the powerless to _be _bearing, and not to _ourselves to _be _bringing _pleasure. (ROM_15:1)

OET-RV: 15 We who are powerful should be bearing the weaknesses of the powerless rather than just seeking to bring pleasure to ourselves. (ROM 15:1)

1 Th 4:1 ‘you_all to_be walking and to_be bringing_pleasure to god as even’ SR GNT 1 Th 4:1 word 24

OET-LV: 4 Therefore finally, brothers, we _are _asking you _all and we _are _exhorting in the_master Yaʸsous, as you _all _received from us, which how it _is _fitting you _all to _be _walking and to _be _bringing _pleasure to_god (as even you _all _are _walking), in _order _that you _all _may _be _being _plentiful more. (TH1_4:1)

OET-RV: 4 So finally, brothers and sisters, you learnt from us about how to live in a way that pleases God as indeed you are. Now we are requesting you all, and we’re instructing you from the master Yeshua to do this even more, (TH1 4:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘areskō’ have 10 different glosses: ‘am bringing_pleasure’, ‘to bring_pleasure’, ‘to_be bringing_pleasure’, ‘I was bringing_pleasure’, ‘he may bring_pleasure’, ‘him let_be bringing_pleasure’, ‘she may bring_pleasure’, ‘she brought_pleasure’, ‘bringing_pleasure’, ‘brought_pleasure’.

Greek words (5) other than ἀρέσκειν (V-NPA····) with a gloss related to ‘bringing_pleasure’

ROM 15:2 ἀρεσκέτω (aresketō) V-MPA3··S ‘of us to the one near him let_be bringing_pleasure to the good’ SR GNT Rom 15:2 word 6

OET-LV: 2 Each of _us to _the one near him _let _be _bringing _pleasure to the good for building. (ROM_15:2)

OET-RV: 2 Each one of us should be bringing pleasure to those near us—displaying goodness and building them up, (ROM 15:2)

1 COR 10:33 ἀρέσκω (areskō) V-IPA1··S ‘also_I in all things to all men am bringing_pleasure not seeking the’ SR GNT 1 Cor 10:33 word 5

OET-LV: 33 As also _I in _all things, to _all men am _bringing _pleasure, not seeking the of _myself benefit, but the benefit of _the many, in _order _that they _may _be _saved. (CO1_10:33)

OET-RV: 33 just like I work to please everyone—not for my own benefit but rather, trying to benefit everyone else so that they might get saved. (CO1 10:33)

GAL 1:10 ἤρεσκον (aʸreskon) V-IIA1··S ‘if still to people I was bringing_pleasure of chosen_one/messiah a slave not’ SR GNT Gal 1:10 word 17

OET-LV: 10 For/Because now I _am _persuading people or the god? Or I _am _seeking to _be _bringing _pleasure to _people? If I _was_ still _bringing _pleasure to _people, I _was not wishfully a_slave of_chosen _one /messiah. (GAL_1:10)

OET-RV: 10 Am I trying to please and persuade people or God? If I was still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be worthy to be one of the messiah’s slaves. (GAL 1:10)

1 TH 2:4 ἀρέσκοντες (areskontes) V-PPA·NMP ‘not as to people bringing_pleasure but to god the one’ SR GNT 1 Th 2:4 word 15

OET-LV: 4 but as we _have _been _approved by the god, to _be _entrusted the good _message, thus we _are _speaking, not as to _people bringing _pleasure, but to_god, the one approving the hearts of _us. (TH1_2:4)

OET-RV: 4 but since God has approved us and entrusted the good message to us, that’s what we talk about. We don’t aim to bring pleasure to people, but rather to bring them to God—the one who approves our inner motives. (TH1 2:4)

1 TH 2:15 ἀρεσκόντων (areskontōn) V-PPA·GMP ‘and to god not bringing_pleasure but to all people’ SR GNT 1 Th 2:15 word 18

OET-LV: 15 who both the master having _killed _off Yaʸsous, and their prophets, and us having _driven _out, and to_god not bringing _pleasure, but to _all people of _contrary, (TH1_2:15)

OET-RV: 15 They executed their own prophets as well as the master Yeshua. They drove us out, displeasing God and contrary to all people— (TH1 2:15)

Key: V=verb